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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (38026)	10/14/2008 4:21:51 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 149317

Bush Exceeded Power by Withholding Cheney Comments, Report Says By Jeff Bliss Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush overstepped his authority by withholding an FBI interview of Vice President Dick Cheney from a congressional panel probing the leak of a CIA agent's identity, a draft bipartisan House report said. The interview may shed light on who disclosed former CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity, the draft report said. The report was circulated by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, a California Democrat, and Virginia Representative Tom Davis, the panel's senior Republican. The president's decision to withhold the interview transcript from the committee in July ``was legally unprecedented and an inappropriate use of executive privilege,'' the report said. The committee is investigating what role Cheney may have had in the leak of Plame's work in 2003. Her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, had questioned evidence used to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Attorney General Michael Mukasey had told the committee that Bush's refusal to release the Cheney interview was within the president's authority, under executive privilege, to keep his discussions with advisers private. White House spokesman Tony Fratto today objected to the report and another one circulated by Waxman that said the administration wrongly asserted executive privilege regarding a separate panel investigation of climate change and Clean Air Act policies. Fratto said the committee received ``upwards of a million pages of documents'' from the administration and that today's reports were partisan and unhelpful. `Campaign Attack' ``We're focused on more important business than another campaign attack from Representative Waxman,'' he said. In August, a federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit by Plame and Wilson that accused Cheney, former White House political adviser Karl Rove and former Cheney aide I. Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby of conspiring to reveal Plame's identity. Plame and Wilson accused the three men and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage of leaking her name to retaliate against Wilson. Libby was convicted by a federal jury in March 2007 of obstructing a Department of Justice probe into the leak of Plame's identity. Bush commuted Libby's sentence three months later while leaving the conviction intact. No one has been charged with illegally disclosing Plame's identity. The report on climate change said it was an ``abuse'' for administration officials to withhold 2,000 pages of documents from the committee. The documents concern administration decisions to prevent California and other states from seeking to reduce greenhouse gases from motor vehicles and adopt ozone standards at odds with Environmental Protection Agency scientists' recommendations. To contact the reporter on this story: Jeff Bliss in Washington jbliss@bloomberg.net. Last Updated: October 14, 2008 14:31 EDT

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (38026)	10/14/2008 5:36:50 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 149317

Chris Buckley(son of WM.F Buckley) also wrote the non-fiction Steaming To Bamboola, about the merchant marine, as well as contributed to an oral history of Milford, Connecticut, and is an editor at Forbes Magazine. Buckley has written for most national newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Time, The Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, US News & World Report, Vanity Fair, Vogue and Conde Nast Traveler [1]. He has also published numerous humorous essays in The New Yorker, and wrote the back-page column for National Review, the conservative magazine founded by his father, until his resignation following his unexpected endorsement of Barack Obama for President of the United States.